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GOD’S LOVING FAITHFULNESS TOWARD US For your steadfast love is great above the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth! —Psalm 108:4-5             I am so glad that our Lord God’s love is steadfast and does not waver when I mess up.  When your child fails, do you love him or her less?  Of courses not.  Steadfast love is not moved by anything.  Yes, I am so glad that our Lord’s love great and steadfast— unshakable, stubborn, resolute.  Not like some people, unfortunately, that say they love you but jump ship when something does not go…

MY LIFE IS IN HIS HANDS! Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD, and I will add fifteen years to your life. —II Kings 20:5-6             Our Lord God Almighty can do whatever He desires.  Someone may be sick to the point of death, like Hezekiah.  Pray… our Lord heals and it just may be in His will to heal the sick person.  What our Lord did for…

BE AN ENCOURAGER, NOT A DISCOURAGER Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times! —Psalm 106:3 But they soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel. —Psalm 106:13  They angered him at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account, for they made his spirit bitter, and he spoke rashly with his lips.  —Psalm 106:32-33             Would it not be a wondrous joy to be able to observe justice and do what is right “at all times!”  How unfortunate it is that man has a short memory and soon forgets.  Man forgets quickly what God has already done and then…

OUR LORD IS TO BE TOP PRIORITY! So these nations feared the LORD and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children’s children—as their fathers did, so they do to this day. —II Kings 17:41 Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his presence continually! —Psalm 105:4             Syncretism… It is nothing new.  It is the mixing of beliefs.  There have been those who “fear the Lord” but not to the point where they give up their gods.  They seek to worship both, but it cannot be done.  We are to “’Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and…

FEAR GOD’S COMING JUDGMENT, NOT MAN’S FEAR-MONGERING He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they took to flight. The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them. You set a boundary that they may not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth. —Psalm 104:5-9             Those who are fear mongering over the concern that the earth will be flooded are liars and using fear to advance their agenda.  I can confidently,…

OUR MERCIFUL LORD He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. As a father shows compassion to his children, so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him. For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust. As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its…

FEAR NOT! He said, “Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” —II Kings 6:16 Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away, but you are the same, and your years have no end. The children of your servants shall dwell secure; their offspring shall be established before you. —Psalm 102:25-28             We need not fear man or any circumstances because “those who are with us…

NOTHING IS TOO DIFFICULT FOR OUR LORD And he said, “Thus says the LORD, ‘I will make this dry streambed full of pools.’ For thus says the LORD, ‘You shall not see wind or rain, but that streambed shall be filled with water, so that you shall drink, you, your livestock, and your animals.’ This is a light thing in the sight of the LORD. He will also give the Moabites into your hand… —II Kings 3:16-18 . 42 A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And Elisha said, “Give to the men, that they…

GOD USES WHAT MIGHT SEEM RANDOM TO JUDGE But a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded.” And the battle continued that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, until at evening he died. And the blood of the wound flowed into the bottom of the chariot. —I Kings 22:34-25             Wicked, evil people do not realize how close they are to our Lord’s judgment which can happen in a…

YOU ARE NOT ALONE And behold, there came a voice to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” He said, “I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.” —I Kings 19:13-14 “Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.” —I Kings 19:18             Elijah felt he was alone in service to our…